LISTing Newsletter

LISTing April 1994
Newsletter

Newsletter of the Long Island Next Meeting
Sinclair/Timex Users Group April 10

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PLEASE LET US KNOW WHAT SYSTEM
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TS2058, ETC... |
ВОВ GILDER anu HE
HAS MADE HIS RE ат

NEWPORT В.Т. FOR THE OL SHOW.
KEN LANG ALSO INFORMED US THAT
HE PLANNED TO ATTENL

FRED TOLD HOW HE AND DONALD
LAMBERT OF: z в БЕТМЕ. БЕ ARE
EXCHANGING BACK 155
ING AND OTHER НЕНЕ ;
HOPEFULLY, BOTH LT: AND 2s IR

GLI МЕ CAN ESTABLIS:
SLETTERS FOR

HELPFUL REFERENCE TO BE USED БҰ
HE TIMEX/SINCLAIR COMMUNITY.

А

FRED INFORPF-D ЧЕ THAT. HE RECEIU-
ED Я COPY GF Я MAGAZINE CALLED
THE co IMPUTER JOURNAL.

IN ІТ WARS AN EXCELLENT AR LE
НБООТ THE ZX-81 BY HR. BILL
KIBLER.

THE MAGAZINE ІЗ DEDICATED, AND
PROVIDES SUPPORT ТО THE OLDER
CLASSIC Ра SYST
OUR BELOVED БІ IRS AND TIMEX.
COMPUTER HISTORY.
EXPLAINS DIFFERENCES BETUEEN

SYSTEMS. AND HAS A GREAT CIRCUIT
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GO TO LONG TINE MEMBER AND
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MAGAZINE.

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$4.00 EACH.

FOR SALE: TIMEX PRINTER PAPER.
З ROLLS - 45.88+ POSTAGE.
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FRED STERN 515-737-0953

I ЯМ LOOKING FOR ам BERCO DISK
DRIVE INTERFACE FOR THE T51000.
I UILL CONSIDER Я PURCHASE

EITHER WITH OR WITHOUT DRIVES.

I WILL EVEN CONSIDER Я U-REPRIR.
FRED STERN 516- 737-8855. EVEN-
INGS AND WEEKENDS. .

FOR SALE; COMMODORE С-ба COM-
PUTER. в DISK DRIVES, OKIDATA
COLOR PRINTER, GAMES. 555146
$150.00. CALL MR. MARCELLO
GALLUZZO, 316 - o im 285€ =SVENINGS.

QL CORNER

January 12th 1994 was the 10th anniversary of the launch of the QL and thanks to
the enthusiasm of the many users of the QL, we shall see many more years of
prosperity and development within the QL environment. On the QL market, there
are many new software titles appearing; new hardware such as the Super Gold
Card, hard disk interfaces, mouse drivers, an SCSI interface and who knows what

else will appear in the future.

QUANTA is celebrating this anniversary with a dinner on Saturday, April 23rd, as
part of the Newcastle Workshop. Any member of QUANTA can attend and a charge of
£10 per head in advance is required. Additional information appears in volume 11
issue l QUANTA magazine.

There has been a change for the location of the'Newport, RI QL show оп May l4th.
The show will be held at the Howard Johnson Motor Lodge in Newport. I don't
have the complete address at this time, however, I will provide you with the
necessary information plus a detailed map of the location ( provided by LIST
member Joe LaPunzina) in next months LISTing.

I made а reservation at Motel 6 in Newport - a single room goes for $33.99.
Their telephone number is 401-848-0600. They will keep the light on for you!

I just received the latest issue of QL World magazine where they state in the
"Editor's Notebook", page 9, that Miracle Systems Ltd., will demo in Newport, a
SCSI card for the 01. I believe that а SCSI interface can operate а CD-ROM
drive, and probably it will have Provisions for a VGA or Super VGA monitor. This
Will be the first demo for this interface!

On the inside front cover of QL World, Digital Precision, is advertising
Miracle's new Super Gold Card and displays a chart comparing the various
features of the Super Gold Card to a bare QL, a Trump Card, and a Gold Card.
Below are some of the comparisons:

System Bare Trump Gold Super
Features QL Card Card Gold Card
Speed 1x 1.8x 7х 25х!

СРО 68008 68008 68000 68020
Clock Frequency 7.5MHz 7.5MHz 16MHz 24MHz

Bus Width 8 bit 8 bit 16 bit 32 bit
RAM fitted 128Kb 896Kb 1,920Kb 3,968Kb
Ram access speed Slow OK Fast Twice Fast
PCB population V.High High V.Low V.Low
Physical dimensions Monolith Full-size Half-size Half-size
Lock-up frequency Quch! Occasional V. Rare Won't
Battery B/U clock No No Yes Yes

Clock Protection level N/A N/A Modest High
Toolkit II plus manual No Yes Yes Enlarged
Sub-Directory support No No Yes Yes
Parallel/Centronics Port No No No Yes
Spooler/Screendump/Ramdisk No Yes Yes Yes
Speedup Switch (Screen#2) No No No Yes
Future Hi-Res Graphics No No No Planned
Disk Drives Supported N/A SD/DD SD/DD/HD/ED SS/DD/HD/ED
Max No: of drives 9 2 3 4

Max Sectors/disk N/A 1,440 6,400 6,400

Max disk transfer rate N/A 30Kb/sec 120Kb/sec 120Kb/sec
Peripheral card tolerance ОК No No OK

SCSI-2 compatibility to-be No No No Yes
Miracle/DP Warranty No No 2 years 2 years
DIY/Kit Incorporability Yes No No Yes

Overall Rating by DP 2% 10% 30% 110%

Digital Precision (DP) is selling the Super Gold Сага
no-limit software discount voucher and a free
Program. Trade in from a Gold Card to
above price.

at £375 plus a 26%
dust cover plus a free mystery DP
a Super Gold Card will allow £125 off the

If you are interseted in purchasing or trading up to a Super Gold Card, Miracle
will be selling them at the Newport show. If you would like to purchase a Super
Gold Card from DP, they are at the following location: Digital Precision Ltd;

222 The Avenue, London E4 9SE UK - Telephone:

See you next month, Bob Gilder

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Speed: 3.25 MHz

ROM

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Size: 4K x 8

Replacements- Type Size
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BANNER
For The TS 2068
By Christopher Raynak

This is a short program to prínt long banners
featuring large characters on the 2040 print-

er. Unlike some other banner Programs, you
do not have to type DATA statements that
contain each character's dot makeup. This

program looks directly into the ROM for the

dot patterns.
ОЁ dots ав a single decimal number,

The 2068 stores each scan line
This is

unlike the TS 1000 which its dot patterns as

binary l's and O's,
Start at address 15359,

In the 2068 ROM they
This program works

with all characters except inverse and user
defined and regular graphics,

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2 PAPER 3: BORDER 9: INK ?. т?
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с user ЗЕР. graphics ог reguia
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zeiect one of the letter Sizes r
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ШЕТ 2$=0$(1 TO 32)
12 PAPER 3: PRINT AT 3,0;"Your
message is being processed. ": р
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scan Line,

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IF 5ш3 THEN LET Я$=Я$+-
NEXT Үү

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TO PRINT",
return.
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begin to print out.

currently printing.
finished, the

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n" THEN GO TO ігра

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550 CLS . GO TO 10

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1923 REM ЕЕ

BANNER 1000
By John Marion

program will run

2002 REM BANNER 1000
210 CLS |

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,PRINT AT 4,7;"

The purpose of this program із to print out
banners on your Timex printer using your ZX81
After typing in and runníng,
you will be instructed to "ENTER YOUR MESSAGE
Now enter your message and press
Next you will be asked to choose a
This is the character which
makes up the letters on your banner.
entering your choice of bit, your banner will,
Choice 3 will use the
Same letter for a bit as the letter it is
After your banner 15

After

again.

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PRINT AT ia А Б; 1а ір 1 as ONU 3 š
PRINT AT 14£,.6;"(3) SAME AS
в"

INPUT A

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REM PRINT BANNER

CLS

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More One-Liners for the 2068 10,5: NEXT x :
ers ror the 2068

Тһе "2068 Spirograph" routine drew a good bit
of response including a letter from Robert
Hartung, former writer for SYNC Magazine, He
informs us that the routine is a variation of
one which is at the top of page 472 of Morse,
Adamson, Anrep, and Hancock's Essential Guide
To T/S Home Computers. Another variation is
this one Robert made up for SYNC the month

Ziff Davis pulled the plug.
1 LET PZINT :8мр#3): LET ісім
T (RNO#3): IF p=i THEN RUN
В СЫЗ: PLOT 55,27: ОМ ERR so
TO 2: INK 1: PAPER р: BORDER IN
T ,(RND£z38): BRIGHT INT (RNDs2): D
RAW OUER 1;129,120,INT iRNDs30Q)
+РІ: PAUSE 30: IF INKEYS-"Q" THE
N ON ERR RESET : STOP

PAUSE 50 or Line 2 Permits stop-
Ping the routine, Otherwise the
ON ERR instruction wilt ignore
"STOP" and "BREAK",

The following short programs were borrowed
from the Sinclair Timex User Groups Newslet-
ter of the Boston Computer Society (Volume 3,
issue 4). As you can see some pretty neat
effects can be achieved using only one
program line with the 2068.